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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[Gr. [GREEK] a lizard + [GREEK] the jaw.]

(Zool.)

Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (

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saurognathous ‎(not comparable)

(zoology) having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers